Wavelength Plus: A podcast by TradeWinds

For many shipping executives, ships are assets. For Emily Koo, they can feel more like family.In this episode of Wavelength+, TradeWinds China correspondent Huaqing Ma sits down with the fourth-generation managing director of TCC Group, whose roots trace back to Shanghai in 1917.Koo reflects on growing up aboard company vessels, learning from seafarers who later became her mentors, and why spotting a TCC funnel at sea still feels “like seeing a relative”.The conversation ranges from her journey at Columbia Business School and life outside shipping to family stewardship, ancestral roots in mainland China, and the challenges of leading a century-old company through what she describes as an increasingly “chaotic” era.Koo also shares the management advice she still carries from her trading days, explains why trust takes generations to build, and discusses the Chinese saying that wealth rarely survives beyond three generations.How does a fourth-generation shipping family balance heritage and change? And what does it take to sustain a business into its second century?The full story is also available on tradewindsnews.com.

Cetus Maritime is a Hong Kong-based operator focused on the minor bulk market. Like many shipping companies, it has spent recent years navigating geopolitical disruption, shifting trade patterns and growing regulatory complexity.Chief operating officer Olivia Lennox-King believes the industry is operating outside traditional shipping cycles, with wars, sanctions and political risk increasingly influencing commercial decisions.In this episode of Wavelength+, Lennox-King speaks with TradeWinds China correspondent and podcast host Huaqing Ma about the disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the charter disputes likely to follow, China’s role as the “factory of the factories”, and why fragmented emissions regulations may become one of shipping’s biggest future challenges.The full story is also available on our website: ‘There will be a lot of charter disputes’: Cetus shuns Middle East Gulf tradesA TradeWinds/DN Media podcast

In this episode TradeWinds Finance guru Joe Brady sits down and talks to one of Greece's, and the US shipping markets. most well known shipowners, George Economou.In this candid interview Economou is taken back to the beginning when he decided he wanted to invest in shipping, to the rollercoaster ride of DryShips public listing and the attempt at Genco.The conversation between Joe Brady and George Economou took place in front of an audience of400 during the TradeWinds Shipowner Forum, Greece, in June 2026Want to know more:? Read this: He just wanted to make money: The life and times of George EconomouA TradeWinds/DN Media podcast

A conversation between TradeWinds editor in chief Julian Bray and Evangelos Marinakis, owner of Capital Group taken from the Greece Shipowners Forum during this years Posidonia.TradeWinds subscribers can get more context and insight here:Marinakis voices VLCC confidence and applauds ‘brilliant’ Sinokor-Aponte strikeStrait of Hormuz toll may be a price worth paying, says Evangelos MarinakisPosidonia in pictures: Shipping celebrates at vibrant and varied partiesRecorded at TradeWinds Shipowner Forum, Athens, June 3rd 2026A TradeWinds/DN Media podcast

Three months into the disruption around the Strait of Hormuz, Hong Kong-based Anglo-Eastern Ship Management has 16 ships and around 360 crew members operating inside the Gulf.In this Wavelength+ episode, Anglo-Eastern chief executive Bjorn Hojgaard and group managing director for operations and shared services Swapnodeep Mondal speak to TradeWinds China correspondent Huaqing Ma in the company’s first detailed public discussion of its operational exposure since conflict disrupted shipping through the region.The conversation explores how uncertainty, misinformation and prolonged geopolitical instability are reshaping modern ship management — from psychological support for crews and families to real-time intelligence gathering and operational decision-making.Hojgaard also discusses why he believes freedom of navigation can no longer be taken for granted and how geopolitical fragmentation could eventually affect the future of seafaring itself.Read more: https://www.tradewindsnews.com/tankers/hormuz-crisis-reshaping-ship-management-anglo-eastern-warns/2-1-1994253

Sophisticated cyber attacks are no longer the work of well funded state actors. Thanks to artificial intelligence they can be carried out by almost anyone.The increased tie up between a ship owner's IT system and a vessel's onboard operational technology, coupled with powerful AI models, is worrying experts.Hackers no longer just seek to phish for data and then hold systems to ransom, they may soon be using their AI enabled hacking capabilities to control vessels.Wavelength producer and host Craig Eason talks to:Patric Desanti-Fettkenheuer,, head of cyber security, BW Group (during the TradeWinds Singapore Shipowner Forum, April 2026)Professor John McDermid at York University's Centre for Assured AutonomyDr Avanthika Harish, Pentester and AI system expert, Plymouth University's CyberShip LabKaran Sajnani, founder, Rudra SecurityYarden Gross, founder and chief executive, Orca AI (during the TradeWinds Singapore Shipowner Forum, April 2026)A TradeWinds/DN Media podcast

Each month until October, TradeWinds will publish a profile of a finalist in our Guiding Stars series, a project highlighting the people making change in shipping.Our fourth Guiding Stars finalist is Kuet Ee Yoon, a former Singapore Navy officer who has spent decades across naval operations, offshore shipping, maritime heritage and safety advocacy in Singapore.The 67-year-old maritime veteran discusses why Singaporeans must better understand the sea, the risks of losing maritime awareness in a global port city, and why stronger transparency around safety incidents matters.He also reflects on growing up Chinese-educated in 1970s Singapore, his transition from the Navy to the private sector, and the “never say die” mindset he believes will determine Singapore’s future as a maritime nation.TradeWinds' 10 Guiding Stars finalists have been nominated by our readers and editorial team. These are people who are innovating and creating real, tangible change in shipping and tackling some of its biggest issues. Later this year, we will ask you to vote on who will receive our TradeWinds Guiding Star award for 2026, which will be announced in NovemberHost: Huaqing Ma, TradeWinds Asia CorrespondentA TradeWinds/DN Media podcast

Laura DiBella became the chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission, the US agency that regulates international shipping, in January.She has already taken steps in her new role that are fairly new for FMC leaders, such as rejecting container operators' requests to raise rates amid the Strait of Hormuz crisis and playing a visible role in the US delegation at the International Maritime Organization in recent meetings to discuss the proposed Net Zero Framework.TradeWinds' Eric Priante Martin spoke with her on the stage at the recent TradeWinds Shipowners Forum USA in Houston.Read more: ‘We can act’: Trump’s FMC chair threatens to create penalties for Net-Zero Framework taxHost and interviewer: Eric Priante Martin, TradeWinds US Bureau ChiefGuest: Laura DiBella, chair, Federal Maritime CommissionRecorded at TradeWinds US Shipowner Forum, Houston, May 5th 2026A TradeWinds/DN Media podcast

The Poseidon Principles are a set of requirements for signatories, all financial institutions engaged in shipping, to collect and report climate risks of their portfolios and investments.While it does not have any regulatory teeth it has undoubtedly become a motivation for banks to look at their books.Paul Taylor, head of maritime industries at French financial giant Societe Generale, took up the post of chair of the Principles at the start of 2026, a year where maritime decarbonisation is a burning topic.In this one-to-one conversation during the TradeWinds Shipowner Forum Singapore, Paul talks to Julian Bray, TradeWinds editor-in-chief about the future of the principles, the link between them and the decarbonisation talks at the International Maritime Organization and how they could have more teeth in the near future.Read more: ‘We have to have teeth’: Poseidon Principles boss signals strategic shiftIn conversation: Paul Taylor, Head of Maritime Industries, Societe General and Julian Bray, Editor-in-chief, TradeWindsRecorded live: SIngapore April 21st 2026Producer: Craig EasonA TradeWinds/DN Media podcast